I'm a chemical engineer by day and a woodworker at night and on the weekends. My favorite styles are Craftsman and Arts & Crafts, especially Stickley and Greene and Greene. I've been doing woodworking for 20 years.

-- Earl "I'm a pessamist - generally that increases the chance that things will turn out better than expected"

The heads started out as 2×2x12 (African Blackwood), 2×2x18 (Ebony and Yellowheart) and 3×3x12 (Bloodwood, East Indian Rosewood).
After cleaning off the wax and squaring things up, the pieces were ripped to 1 7/8” squar...

For the 2018 Summer Mallet Swap I made a “dice” mallet which was well received. Since I wasn’t doing much this summer I decided to make a batch of mallets and write a blog detailing the process.
These are the original set. Th...

Most of the previous entry talked about the process mechanics (cutting, gluing, and clamping). This is a picture of the essential tools for this part of the project:
The initial blocks start out with only a few strips of wood with spacers ...

There were some folks that were curious about how to make prairie style mosaics like the one that was on my Box Swap submission. I’m writing this as I work on another mosaic for an extra box that was started for the swap. Hopefully this wi...

It’s been a few weeks since I first started this discussion on dust collection systems and the math/science behind it. There is a vast amount of information available out there and all of the variations on how to size a DC set up.
Here a...